Why Everyone Hates WordPress

• hog-scaffold

  1 2 3.6 PHP

  The base WP theme scaffold used by HoG.

  

The flip side here when working with folks who understand how the Core of WordPress works, is you are able to eliminate the need for most, if not all of these plugins. Registering a custom post type is dead simple, especially when you have an open source starter theme that is well organized and conducive to leveraging common PHP patterns like factories.

• wp-graphql

  53 3,600 9.6 PHP

  :rocket: GraphQL API for WordPress

  

Are you dead set on building a Nuxt + Vue application? Partial to NextJS like I am? Well good news everyone, WordPress has done a pretty decent job over the past couple of years building out the WordPress API and enabling developers to leverage WordPress as a Headless CMS. Pair that with the amazing WPGraphQL Pluginand you’re cooking with JavaScript. You get all the benefits of really solid backend CMS that end users are familiar with, and can grasp with a 1 hour CMS training, distributed using your favorite flavor of JavaScript.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• gutenberg

  101 9,849 10.0 JavaScript

  The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.

  

The meteoric rise of plugins like Advanced Custom Fields (which is still an excellent plugin and serves it’s purpose very well), and page builder Themes like Divi, was a result of a gap in WordPress’s page editing abilities. And while these things may have been absolutely necessary in the past, with the introduction and integration of Gutenberg into WordPress core, that is no longer the case.

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